Xing’s Chef
“The food there are really fresh too, and they have the best fried pork dumpling in New York.”
“The sauce/gravy for the shrimp is the best tasting, not an oil slick.Cold sesame noodles also great and the spare ribs are very meaty and not dry.”
“High quality and well above average the average Chinese greasy spoon.”
Xing’s Chef
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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American Chinese food at its best. The menu offers the same variety and prices as every other Chinese restaurant in the country, yet the place couldn't be more different. First of all it's immaculately clean and well-decorated. They clearly put the same level of attention to detail and cleanliness in their food as they put into their eating space. The kitchen is visible, as is the food prep, and it's very clean.
The food is oh-so-delicious. It's fresh, it's not greasy, and for the first time after eating Chinese in my adult life my innards didn't want to jump out out and die 15 minutes after I finished eating. This is the go-to answer to takeout prayers. Try the General Tso's. Unlike most varieties that are advertised as "spicy," the tangy sauce used in this version achieves a touch of heat without causing discomfort. The broccoli is fresh and crisp. The servings are huge. There will be plenty for leftovers that leave you feeling nourished, not nauseous.
Hooray for Xing's!
I've ordered from here consistently for months now, after being recommended from a friend who loves the place. I just called them now from my roommate's cell and they asked for our address (same as always, just a different phone number). First, they say that they don't deliver to us. I state that they've delivered to us numerous times and I'm just using a different phone number. The girl then puts an older lady on the phone to ask for my address AGAIN. I state it AGAIN and she says that they don't deliver to us. I tell them that's impossible because they've delivered to us! Then she proceeds to tell me actually it's so busy right now, the wait is going to be so long, they delivery guy went out to 30th avenue and he's still not back, etc. I'm sorry, why is this MY issue? Why did you just straight up lie?
Don't order from here if you want BS customer service and lies.
Typical neighborhood Chinese restaurant. Food is surprisingly less oily than most nabe Chinese places.
Appetizers
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Shrimp Toast:: B-
This is the thick, not the thin shrimp toast. I'd say it's about an inch at its thickest. Nice and crispy on the outside, soft and moist on the inside. You can taste the ginger, but there's not much shrimp flavor. I think there's too much bread for the amount of shrimp they use. It's one of the least oily shrimp toasts I've ever had (but its still shrimp toast, so it IS oily. Just not tremendously oily.)
BBQ Spare Ribs: A-
Quite good. On the fatty side (which I like) and not too sweet. Juicy.
Crab Rangoon: A-
I dig it. Nice starch-to-crab cream ratio. An A+ would be a little more cream, and the cream a little bit more … "crabby".
Fantail Shrimp: A+
You will hate this. It was the most oily, fatty fantail shrimp I've ever had in my life. But I go for stuff like that. It had terrific wonderful oily shrimpy flavor. If you dig this sort of thing, it's an A+. If not, you will be disgusted.
Soup
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Won Ton Soup: B-
As a soup, won ton always bores me. Yeah, won tons are cool, but the soup itself is so .. barren and 1 dimensional. There are things you can do to make the soup more interesting, but not this one. The soup is not dynamic at all. The only thing that gives it flavor is salt and scallion, and it could use a lot more scallion. The dumplings are a little starchy because of their thickness. They could use more meat, and the meat could be flavored with things like ginger and garlic a bit more.
Egg Drop Soup: B+
A very competent egg drop soup. Hits all the high notes: thick, salty, egg custardy flavor. I've had worse. I'm not entirely sure I've had much better.
Hot and Sour: B+
Hot and Sour has gone significantly downhill in NYC since the 80's. It has become a bland soup without typical Hot and Sour Soup ingredients. This one was actually somewhat spicy, thankfully! The ingredients were prepared nicely, but it still exhibited poor ingredients. For example, they used button mushrooms instead of the classic shitake mushroom.
Mix Vegetable Soup: B-
Won ton soup with broccoli, baby corn, bok choy, green pepper, bamboo shoots, and peapods (and no won ton). Good, but bland and a little salty.
Chop Suey
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Beef Chop Suey:
Fried Rice
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Young Chow Fried Rice: A-
Very nice, and not oily as fried rice can get. High quality and well above average the average Chinese greasy spoon. If it had more ingredients and cooked a bit more, it would've been a strong A.
Egg Foo Young
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Roast Pork Egg Foo Young: C+
Over cooked. Burnt in places. The brown sauce is nearly flavorless. The egg foo young itself was bland, too. Could've used more garlic and onion.
Moo Shu Dishes
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Moo Shu Beef: B+
Pretty much the same as all the other moo shu you've had. Meat was soft.
Szechuan & Hunan Dishes
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Sesame Chicken: B
Sweet foods are not my cup of tea, so maybe I shouldn't have rated this. My wife rates it a B+. I thought it was a little too sweet and a tad dry. She was very happy with it.
Beef Hunan Style: C+
Good flavor, but the beef was very low quality — very mealy. Awful texture.
American & Chinese Special
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Fried Chicken Nugget: C+
Obviously from a frozen food package. Bland. Boring.
One of the best Chinese takeout places I've ever eaten from. The staff is so friendly, the restaurant is so clean, and the food is delicious! Haven't had one bad thing yet. Their General Tso's is the bomb and all of their soups and dumplings are delicious.